On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 04:00:26PM -0500, pohl wrote: > > Thanks to your timely mini-howto, I managed to install debian > on the iMac with the flakey cdrom/cdrom-drive problem I posted > about last night. There was only one thing that definately > needs to be corrected in the document: where you suggest looking > at /var/log/daemon.log to get the MAC address, we need to show > how to make bootpd provide this debugging output (it's silent by > default): by adding "-d 1" to the /etc/inetd.conf entry like this: > > bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -i \ > -t 120 -d 1
i knew i should have rechecked that detail, i did add just -d (according to the man page for my bootpd the number is deprecated) ill fix that. really it seems like there should be a better way to find the MAC address but i could not get this to work without explicity defining it. and all the examples in the man page had a MAC defined so it must be necessary. (perhaps for security purposes?) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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